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Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem. Or there abouts. Less force more caution in future Smegster.

Was Ist Das?

I'm asking about $50 if the exchange rate hasn't twitched, not $100.

David Bedford - Great Equatorial

Do I earn the fail? Took me 15 seconds.

Tyler (Sherwood) sent me: I haven't listened to it yet, I'm in the process of adding the 17 CDs I got for Christmas into iTunes now. My dad predicts that I'll love it though. Many thanks dude!

Hippitty Burpdai Dood!

Hippitty Burpdai Squire!

Came back home today and found my amazon sent package. I put it under the tree. Looking forward to finding out whats in it.

They laughed when you said you'd become a comedian. They aren't laughing now.

There is a hotel by that name, but I doubt thats its floor plan. The rooms look interesting.

Just be glad you're not into historical re-enactment i guess eh?

Bees are fine, its the wasps that are a bunch of fucking evil buzzing little yellow and black stinging bastards.

A place where people gradually lose their money for what they percieve as enjoyment. Theme parks are better on a cost benefit basis.

A combination of dense felt on the back of the driver and toilet roll in the enclosure and an electrical tape reflex dot on the front. Also sealing the earcup as much as realistically possible to create a fixed airspace. I played around a lot with different amounts of loo roll. The distance that the driver is mounted from the ear in the housing also matters. The problem isn't eliminated, just tamed to a level that I find personally acceptable. Theres still a sheen, its just not grating anymore and that lowest end really does have some physical thump to it without the typical moving coil blunt smack, its like the whole earcup carries the energy rather than having the energy thrown down your ear. The sound also changed notably depending on how it was amped, much drier from the B-Tech box run of the speaker taps, warmer and more mids but fuzzier out of the headphone socket on the front of the NAD. More limited dynamics and frequency extension out of an ipod or laptop.

I'm not going to a new housing anytime soon, the Goldring one is working very very well now and I love the sound I've got on the #3 and the most difficult bit was taming the shinyness in the treble without using a damping combo which also managed to kill off the low bass. When I get round to the #4 build ill be experimenting with the driver angle which is the only major variable I havent tweaked up yet. The mass damping isn't going to be a night and day thing simply because there isn't a huge amount of space inside the cups to fill up with tac or putty but its fun to experiment and I think that most of the SFI DIY orthophones so far have all been on the ear, around the ear is just plain comfier

Aren't the 404 pads brown and the same shape? -edit- Just spotted your pads comment Spritzer. I'll be happy to buy some pads from Symmetry for you if you need me to.

Couldn't an old pad be stuffed with something that has greater longevity? Cotton wool for example? Or the measurements of a fresh foam insert taken so that people could just carve their own out of those big sheets of sofa foam every time the pads need topped up?

You can buy lambda headbands and pads, just bodge a rectangular housing of the same size of of wood and apply parts. It'll take less time than waiting for a lambda driver to just fail. Has anyone experimented with the benefits of mass damping in orthophones? I'm wondering that if I fill the Goldring housings with blue tac or something except for the "wind tunnel" where the felt and tissue goes there would be a worthwhile benefit.

The funds first model is more sensible, but requires the control of the impulsive buy finger. Having a gradually rising paypal balance makes everything you see for sale so very tempting. You've already got 2 lots of Quad, why not round out with the 99 Pre? You'd have to bastardise a cable to get balanced output though. Do it. Spritzer says do it. Do it. Thats basically the gist of it, the H2 quite literally sucked the 717 dry, right down to the fucking bone. If the O2 was plugged in and on your head and you connected the H2, the O2 just turned into total utter mush as the H2 vampired every single bit of power out of the amp. The O2 was better driven by the 212 than by the 717 with the TakeT plugged in.

Fallout 3 for the 360 for my brothers Chrimbo.